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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1954
Page
15
A photography column praises capturing genuine interest in a subject to heighten viewer engagement. It highlights natural composition with two lambs and a farmer, discusses lighting and exposure, and uses Rock and family film projects to illustrate planning and storytelling camera work for outdoor scenes and domestic events.
A collage of brief blurbs features Swiss hockey star Oscar Beek aiding Elyria women, Mae K Hong scouting for Mills Bros Circus in Wellington, Maplewood principal A. W. Engle with a bus driver’s pipe, beautician coiffeur gossip, and veteran writer Ginny Reinke guiding Third Armored Division coverage. Also included are reminiscences from Clyde Hudson, parakeet bets in Ridgeville, local poets, Golden Age club reports, and Poppies on Poppy Days pledge in Ridgeville.
In Heidelberg Germany a U S Army officer Lieutenant Howard E Stinson from San Jose California used his Army postal address and free time to distribute over 12000 pounds of food and clothing to needy Germans Joining the Heidelberg Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star he urged U S chapters to aid refugees The effort drew in 57 local members as packages flooded in from across the United States and the Panama Canal Zone and distribution expanded beyond the city proper
Readers question why the United States seems to be losing in Asia and Indochina. The column notes missed opportunities to back China and Korea, warns against appeasement, and argues for limited outside aid on U.S. terms. It cites past leaders and currency values, ending by directing readers to Edgar Ansel Mower for more on Indochina.
The U.S. produced more than twice as many new cars as it scrapped. In the last year 2,465,936 autos were junked while new car output reached 6,121,787 and total new registrations stood at 5,738,989, according to L R Polk & Co industrial statisticians.
Public acceptance of the hotel industry universal-type credit cards has surged to 1500 applications weekly, says Albert Pick Jr. of the American Hotel Association. The system allows travel without bulky identifications, lowers fees for Chekards, and enables firms to issue Travelcards for executives, promising wider adoption and possible discontinuation of individual hotel credit cards in years ahead.
Ohio welcomes millions of sightseers as spring fades amid diverse recreation from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. The article highlights Ohio’s lakes streams and parks, a replica forge and blast furnace restoration, and a restored ironmaster’s house as a monument to early iron pioneers.
Much progress has been made this year on restoring the first successful ironworks in America at Saugus Massachusetts, located about ten miles north of Boston. Plans call for formal dedication in September with a public viewing of the completed replica after the ceremony.
In a tale from the Fabian of the Yard series, Robert Fabian recalls Harry Green a Nottingham bank thief and Epsom Derby clerk Blinkin and the Icy Jock bookmaker scheme. Blinkin surrenders after Derby day, while Jock is jailed for illegal betting and baited river fishing fraud.
Montreal reports that capital expenditures in Canada for the year are projected at about 5.8 billion dollars, up three percent from 1953. New construction is estimated at 3.865 billion, six percent higher than last year.
New York reports Dutch flower bulb sales in the United States reached 30 million dollars last year. With about 30 million home gardeners in the country, Americans spent an average of one dollar per garden according to Commerce Department figures.
The American Cancer Society reports a 12.6 percent drop in female cancer deaths in New York over the past ten years. The trend does not hold for males, where deaths have not fallen similarly.
The Elyria Garden Club lists its May 13 meeting at the Woman's Club with speaker Ernest S. Buck of Cleveland on Planting Pruning and Care of Roses. Cascade Park’s 19 acre flowering crab trees look fine this year drawing visitors. The Redbud Judas Tree and many hyacinth varieties are described along with lilacs and other bloom notes.
FORT BENNING GA 3-D has enlisted in the Army. A 3D view of heavy equipment plunging from a speeding airplane tops the latest training gimmick at the Army Infantry School. The device is a quarter scale replica of the actual aerial equipment used for drops.
USC economist Dr Clyde W Phelps estimates the 1952 gross public debt at more than 300 billion dollars. He calculates per capita shares of state, local, and federal debt totaling 1992 dollars, with federal debt at 1802 dollars per person. He warns this government indebtedness acts as a first lien against citizens' property and income.
Hungary’s central communist paper Szabad Nep cites severe coal shortages last winter as the reason schools hospitals and government offices could not be heated citing the harshest winter in recent history and attributing the crisis to the energy shortage in the country.
Washington reports that Army soldier-technicians discuss accelerometers multivibrators and oscilloscopes as routine tools. Training programs cover electronic fire control systems for anti aircraft weapons radar and computing units.
West German postal authorities open a special post office at Hachtel Ottmar Mergenthaler birthplace for mail tied to the Linotype inventor centennial. A 10 pfennig stamp is authorized in Berlin and a temporary cachet will process mail on the anniversary date.
Western circles in Vienna said a recent trade and monetary agreement signed between Israel and Communist Hungary was obviously meant to placate Jewish feelings, badly hurt by anti Semitic waves that hit the satellite early in 1953.
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